New gadget report: We have added a D-Link MediaLounge to our home theater. It is a nifty little device that streams media from your PC, over your wireless LAN, to your TV, in high-definition. It can also play media directly from a USB hard drive, which has come in handy as I have been working [...]
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MediaLounge
Posted in Media, Technology on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cisco Symposium
Posted in Sports, Technology on October 6, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Cisco holds an annual technical symposium in Toronto, and I attended yesterday’s event. It was full of good technical information, with the expected level of Cisco marketing spin. Especially useful was a session on Quality of Service, which was a scaled down version of a nine-hour presentation given during this year’s Networkers in New Orleans. [...]
Furnace
Posted in Home, Technology on October 3, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Summer is officially over: last night we officially and momentously turned on the furnace. This morning the thermometer read a chilly six degrees (that’s celcius). Although the forecast shows some warmer days this week, it’s amazing how quickly we go from using the air conditioner to using the furnace in this city–about a two-week gap.
Enjoying [...]
Wireless Camera
Posted in Technology on October 1, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
My newest gadget is a wireless IP camera from Linksys (the WVC11B). It is relatively inexpensive, and its most useful feature is that it is self-sufficient–it doesn’t rely on a PC because of its built-in web server. The camera is setup in the living room, and allows us to keep an eye on the dogs [...]
